Millennial editor Robert Christian writes:

A sense of precarity haunts the American psyche at the present moment. Many feel squeezed–with growing inequality hollowing out the middle class, along with an affordability crisis rooted in high long-term inflation in healthcare, childcare, education, and housing. Recent inflation in food and energy costs have increased the pressure.

The spectre of A.I., meanwhile, and the possibility that it will wipe out millions of both white-collar and blue-collar jobs in the United States, has only intensified the anxiety and fear in our society.

For those who care about the common good, the dismantling of environmental protections, gutting of life-saving foreign aid, evisceration of democratic norms, promotion of merciless anti-immigrant policies, and countless other disappointments have added sadness, or even despair, to these feelings of anxiety….

How do we keep the faith? How do we have courage in this moment? I humbly suggest: let’s be like Mary Magdalene.

In the gospel readings on Easter Sunday, with the followers of Jesus devastated by his death, scattered and scared, confused and feeling defeated, Mary Magdalene is at the tomb. She shows up. She keeps the faith.

And the Apostle to the Apostles is the first to see the empty tomb and witness the resurrection of Christ. While every Ozymandias, whether their empire stretches across a continent or resides in a home or workplace, will have their hubristic delusions shattered, ending in ruin and covered in sand, faith, hope, and love will endure all things. Love has conquered death itself….

Mary Magdalene did not know that Jesus had conquered death, but she still had the courage and faith to show up. We know the tomb was empty. So as new challenges emerge and inevitable setbacks occur, inspired by the transformational hope of Easter, let us remain committed to building a more just world and fostering the communion that our hearts truly desire….

We know that ultimately Love is undefeated.